10/19/25 Bulletin
- Feb 11
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UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF HANCOCK
We respect tradition — and we welcome inclusive language about people and expansive language about God. Please pray using words most meaningful to you.
Open and Affirming of ALL God’s Children
October 19, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. - Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
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The first pew in front of the pulpit has books and quiet activities for people of all ages.
Please find something that suits you, take it to your pew, and return it after the service.
Silent Prayer
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born… fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter into you long before it happens… Just wait for the birth… for the hour of new clarity. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926
* Indicates points in the service when we stand in body or spirit
Announcements
Prelude Partita on “Dunlap’s Creek” David Lasky
Welcome
*Introit We are the Church (Chorus and vs. 1) Pilgrim Lodge Hymnal p. 46
Chorus:
I am the church! You are the church! We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus, All around the world! Yes, we’re the church together!
Vs. 1
The church is not a building, the church is not a steeple,
the church is not a resting place, the church is a people.
Chorus:
*Call to Worship
One: Family of God, we gather as who we are, and we bring what we have.
Many: Let us encounter the new thing God is doing among us.
One: We bring joy and sorrow, hope and despair, resources and need, certainty and questions.
Many: Let us engage the new thing God is doing among us.
One: In this space, we meet the One who parts seas, creates paths, and changes circumstances.
Many: Let us encourage the new thing God is doing among us.
*Passing of the Peace (ASL) and Lighting of Peace & Justice Candle
*Hymn Part of the Family Pilgrim Lodge Hymnal p. 76
Chorus:
Come in, come in and sit down, you are a part of the family.
We are lost and we are found, and we are a part of the family.
You know the reason why you came, / Yet no reason can explain; / So share in the laughter and cry in the pain, / for we are a part of the family. / God is with us in this place, / Like a Mother's warm embrace. / We're all forgiven by God's grace, for we are a part of the family.
Chorus:
Children and elders, Middlers and teens, / Singles and doubles and in-betweens, / Strong 85’ers and street-wise sixteens, / We are part of the family. / Greeters and shoppers, long-time and new, / Nobody here has a claim on a pew. / And whether we’re many or only a few, / We are a part of the family.
Chorus:
Come in, come in and sit down, you are a part of the family.
We are lost and we are found, and we are a part of the family.
There’s life to be shared in the bread and the wine. / We are the branches, Christ is the vine. / This is God’s temple, it’s not yours or mine, / But we are a part of the family. / There’s rest for the weary, and health for us all, / There’s a yoke that is easy and a burden that’s small.. / So come in and worship and answer the call, for we are a part of the family.
Chorus:
*Invocation (spoken in unison)
Holy One, we rejoice in your presence. We acknowledge that you have done great things in our history, in our present, and will do so in our future. Our hope rests in you. We rejoice in confidence that you abide in our dry spaces and in our flowing streams. Lead us through troubling times and empower us to continue to press toward you and your way. Amen
Children’s Message
Scripture Isaiah 43:18-19
18 Do not remember the former things or consider the things of old. 19 I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Special Music
Message Rev. TJ Mack and Attendees of the Maine Conference Annual Meeting
*Hymn Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee R. #7
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love; / hearts unfold like flowers before thee, opening to the sun above. / Melt the clouds of sin and sadness, drive the dark of doubt away; / giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day!
All thy works with joy surround thee, earth and heaven reflect thy rays, / stars and angels sing around thee, center of unbroken praise. / Field and forest, vale and mountain, flowery meadow, flashing sea, / chanting bird and flowing fountain, call us to rejoice in thee.
Thou art giving and forgiving, ever blessing, ever blest, / wellspring of the joy of living, ocean depth of happy rest! / Source of grace and fount of blessing, all who live in love are thine; / teach us how to love each other, lift us to the joy divine.
Mortals, join the happy chorus which the morning stars began; / God’s own love is reigning o’er us, joining people hand in hand. / Ever singing, march we onward, victors in the midst of strife, / joyful music leads us sunward in the triumph song of life.
Prayer for Transformation and RestorationAll: Righteous God, you made us in your divine image and yet we often turn to the gazes of others to see ourselves. We yield to the temptation of comparison and measure ourselves according to standards not made for us. You declared us good, and we question your judgment. We turn from your truth and embrace the lies that are perpetuated by voices inconsistent with your own. Mend the brokenness within us. Fortify us with your love, hope, and vision. Amen
Assurance of GraceOne: The God of grace sees us fully, knows us fully, and loves us fully. May our eyes be ever open to see ourselves as God sees us. Amen
Prayers of the People – Sharing Joys & Concerns
Our Father (Creator, Mother) who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen
Lead me Lord, lead me in thy righteousness, make my way plain before my face. For it is thou Lord, thou Lord, only, that makest me dwell in safety.
Invitation to Offering -
Offertory A Paean of Praise Lani Smith
*The Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God for all that love has done; Creator, Christ, and Spirit, One. Amen .
*Prayer of Dedication (spoken in unison)
All good gifts come from you, O God. As we have received, so we give, that we may be gifts to one another. Amen
*Hymn Those Who Wait Upon the Lord (select verses) Pilgrim Lodge Songbook p. 1
Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, / They shall mount up-on wings as eagles, / They shall run and not be weary, / They shall walk and not faint, / Help us Lord,
Help us Lord in thy way.
Those who love the Lord, our God…
Those who live the global style…
Those who go to Pilgrim Lodge…
*Benediction (in unison)
*Sung Benediction Lord, Dismiss Us with Your Blessing (vs. 1) R. #333
Lord, dismiss us with your blessing; fill our hearts with joy and peace; / let us each, your love possessing, triumph in redeeming grace: / oh, refresh us, oh, refresh us, traveling through this wilderness.
Postlude Let All Things Now Living Welsh Folk Melody Gilbert Martin
(Please remain seated for the Postlude)
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Resources
Call to Worship, Invocation, and Prayer for Transformation were written by the Rev. Dr. Cheryl A. Lindsay, Minister for Worship and Theology, United Church of Christ.
Many thanks to those who make this service possible –
in front of the camera and behind the scenes.
Music Minister – Debbie Riley
Deacons – Alison Boden & Doug Kimmel
Liturgist – Peggy Karns
Audio-Video Support – Ron Schwizer
Office Administrator – Vicky Espling
Settled Minister – Rev. TJ Mack
The Body of Christ – You
The New Century Hymnal (B.) Hymns of Truth and Light (R.)
Copyright © 1995 The Pilgrim Press Copyright © 1998 First Congregational
Church of Huston, Texas
Make a Joyful Noise
Copyright © 1985 Maine Conference
United Church of Christ
"Permission to podcast / stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE,
License #A-738532. All rights reserved
We Are the Church
Words © 1972 Hope Publishing Company
Part of the Family
Words and Music: James K. Manley
©1984 James K. Manley
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Words and Music - ©2020 Stephen DeCesare / Exultet Music
Contributors: Henry Van Dyke, Ludwig Beethoven, Stephen DeCesare
Lord, Dismiss Us with Your Blessing
Words and Music - ©pd Public Domain
Contributors: Public Domain
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